Posted by BobaFloutist 5 hours ago
16 is insane, though.
1. touch screen to see controls
2. touch lower-right -><-
3. touch screen to see \/ in upper left
4. touch \/
5. touch X
If the video play to the end (1) and (2) are replaced with touch X, for a total of 4.
That's the real horror of that thread. Our kids are going to grow up illiterate and pwned.
Google Docs/Slides/Sheets masquerading as EdTech
The alleged chain of clicks and typing is not really plausible unless the kid just got handed a brand new machine on the first day of school. These are services that kids use everyday that employ cookies to persist session, just like any other web service.
It's fair to complain that you don't find it constructive, interesting, or educational, but I promise it was at least an organic process.
I approached the school about it two years ago and they were dismissive and ignorant.
I have to pay £14 a month for that too.
They also have Chromebooks but they were post Covid emergency purchases and they are all end of life and need replacing. Hence the iPads because we have to pay for the renewal then not the school. And the chromebooks were just as terrible.
I have heard of entire subject lessons being wasted on IT issues. And children getting detention because something was broken.
It’s a kafkaesque nightmare. They should go back to paper for most work.
But with third-party auth, the third-party add-ons and integrations, that's where it turns into complete crap. Those are the things that often tend to be terribly engineered.
Classroom pretty much works like a dream if you stick to materials in Docs/Sheets/Slides and do the grading within Classroom as well. And if each student has their own device so they don't need to log in again every day, even better.
But schools purchase all of these integrations and then expect the teachers to use them and then the quality of the user experience goes down the toilet. But the fault is pretty much entirely with the integrations, in my experience. Because some are quite reliable, it can definitely be done. But a lot of these companies just don't care.
> School governing bodies and local authorities cannot charge for:
> [...]
> education provided during school hours (including the supply of any materials, books, instruments or other equipment)
[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5af99c8ae5274...
Most of what people do with it is muscle memory. Everyone would be instantly broken. They are if anyone changes or moves anything already.
It's good that schools are teaching kids how the real world works :)
At least it’s not the raspberry Pi and programming fad which taught children to sift through boxes of damaged e-waste to assemble a working computer for the first 90% of the lesson.
But I suppose education is a business and they need to keep inventing new "methods".
https://occupysaas.com/ and OSS are the future.
In the spirit of curiosity, when I run into an especially irritating piece of bureaucracy, I like to try to think of the problems it was crafted to avoid. While that will rarely convince me that the current system is the best possible one, it does often convince me that the problem is harder than I thought.
I ended up emailing HR to get an answer, and I’m reasonably certain my employer pays workday 500k+ per year for me to not be able to use the damn thing.
Great, now I know the bake sale starts at 6:30.
Long term result, I no longer read emails from my kids' school.